With Samsung Messages being discontinued soon (now defaulting to Google Messages), I’m curious if anyone has used any FOSS or otherwise private alternatives like Fossify Messages.
I like the prviacy-focused apps like Session, XMPP, SimpleX, etc., but so far I haven’t found it feasible to convert all my friends and family to using them even if they’re obviously better software.
Our association plus friends and family all use whatsapp
Security ?
But its fast and at this stage free
No doubt others will say NO but it works for us
Here what the web had to say about it.
" WhatsApp provides robust security through default end-to-end encryption, ensuring only you and the recipient can read messages."
Highlight from copy, I did not add.
Yes i believe that to be true, but wonder about the company offering the application and when they want to start generating income from it. Already it has moved to a web based version which is not very good on linux platforms and on windows has too much écho to be useful
I was thinking about the app that was offered on the cell phones. Never used this app on a PC.
Sms continues but its being replaced by mms multimedia messages, my phone is not capable of that RCS (Rich Communication Services is the next stage but again you need modern technology that my Nokia cannot do hence whatsapp but that is now opened by Facebook hence my concerns
Considering WhatsApp’s former head of security is suing them over concerns about how personal data was handled, I’d say there’s reason for concern (besides the fact Meta routinely leaks billions of users’ data, which I believe is done purposefully).
I hear this often. Unfortunately I have to use it for work, but I must say, the webapp has worked quite smoothly for me with both Chromium and Gecko-based browsers on a couple of different distros. The only thing I can complain about in terms of performance is that it only stores so many messages before telling you to use the Android app to see older messages.
When I was away our association president got us to use teams for a meeting but after several failed attempts he had to use the paid for version as the free one would not support enough users or time.
The Trésorier decided google meet was the next solution but that blocks your after an hour unless paid for
Each time I have asked why !, just use whatsapp as its free plus security is no big deal for us, nothing confidential discussed
But being part of méta security is one of my concerns
Keet.io isn’t exactly what you’re looking for and it’s not entirely open source, but it’s worth a look. It supports E2EE text, voice, video P2P for individual and group chats.
Sorry to ask, because I don’t know much about this stuff, but if it’s P2P, it means that if I send a message to someone, and that one doesn’t have internet connection, they won’t receive my message when they connect to the internet, if I don’t have internet connection at that time, right?
I use Fossify Phone and Messages all the time on my Samsung device.
They work well
Sms works using the 3 4 or 5 g téléphone network not using the internet
In principal most phones are left on 24 7
With email its different that uses internet so sits waiting at a server till you or them connects and looks at mail
Is that what you are asking ?
What I don’t understand is where will the message be kept until the other person can receive it?
Like, with WhatsApp etc., it waits on the server, as you said with email. But with this?
Yes it does, just like whatsapp till you connect or email till you log in.
Sms wait collection by a phone, but only have a life of around 1 week then are lost comlected or not but you dont get a notice as a sender you just hope it works
When on holiday if someone calls me and I let the answer phone pick up and I do nothing they are lost after a week without letting anyone know
That’s why I said it’s not exactly what is wanted. It’s synchronous like a phone call that doesn’t use voicemail.
Then whatsapp you send a message and when the other connects to whatsapp they get it.
Depending on notifications being on or not, they will receive a sound and a shooter form message just like sms
XMPP invented in the 1990s was the origin of WhatsApp. In order to lock people in for $$$ the owners stopped allowing WhatsApp to talk to other XMPP apps and servers. Google chat was the same.
Go with Quicksy or Conversations apps instead of WhatsApp. The protocol is so solid the big guys keep hijacking it.